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An unexpected guest who stays
Edward Gorey builds this comic premise around an uninvited creature whose arrival at a Victorian household becomes a permanent fixture. The story is told in fourteen rhyming couplets, pairing compact verse with illustrations of the solemn, oddly dressed visitor. Its blend of domestic manners and unexplained intrusion gives the book its distinctive tension: the household must accommodate a presence that remains mysterious and simply does not depart.
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